Table-cutlery



(No Model.)

F. O. FEIOKER.

TABLE GUTLERY.

No. 401,739. Patented Apr. 23, 1889.

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' FREDRICK C. FEICKER, OF NORTHAMPTOY, MASSACHUSETTS.

TABLE-CUTLERY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,739, dated April23, 1889. Application filed September 25, 1888. Serial No. 286 ,311. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDRIOK C FEIoKER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Northampton, in the county of Hampshire and State ofMassachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Handles forTable-Cutlery and Similar Uses, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to handles for tablecutlery and other similaruses, the object being to-provide an improved hollow metallic handle forsaid uses; and the invention consists in the peculiar construction ofsaid improved handle, all as hereinafter fully described, and pointedout in the claims.

I11 the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure 7 is a sideelevation of a tableknife having a hollow metallic handle appliedthereto constructed according to lnyinvention, the said handle and thebolster of the knife-blade being shown in longitudinal section. Fig. 8is a transverse section of the hollow handle 011 the line 8 S, Fig. 7.Fig. 9.

is an end elevation of the handle and a section through the tang thereofon theline 9 9, Fig. 7. Fig. 1 is a longitudinal sectional View of apiece of tubling from which the metallic shell of the handle is formed.Fig. 2 is an end elevation of said tube. Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofthe plug-piece of the handle. Fig. 4. is a longitudinal section of saidtube, Fig. 1, and a side elevation of the plug-piece, Fig. 3, withinsaid tube. Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the line 5 5, Fig. 4. Fig.6 is a 1011- gitudinal section of one end of the tube, Fig. 1,and a sideelevation of one end of the plugpiece, Fig. 3,said plug-piece beingshown in this figure with a tang formed thereon. Fig. 10 is aside-elevation of a portion of a metal bar from which said plug-piece isformed and of the latter, (shown on the end of said ban) and alongitudinal section of the tube, Fig. 1.

In the drawings, 2 indicates a cylindrical metallic tube, preferably ofsoft steel or homogeneous metal, which tube is made, preferably, withwalls of gradually-decreasing thickness from one end to the other, suchvariation in thickness of the shell being provided in order that the enda thereof, which forms the buttend of the handle, may be the heavier endwhen the handle is finished. The ends of the said tube 2 are tightlyplugged by the insertion therein of the plug-piece 3, which consists oftwo circular plugs, c, united by a connecting strip or bar, 6. The saidplug-piece is made, preferably, from the same or similar metal to thatof which the said tube 2 is formed, in order that the latter and theplug-piece may be solidly united together i by welding, as belowdescribed, although said parts may be constructed from other metals andbrazed or soldered together, if desired. The said plug-piece 3 may bemadein several different ways; but the preferable manner of forming thesame is by forging it from the end of a cylindrical bar, D, (see Fig.10,) by means of a rapidly'acting trip-hammer and suitable dies. Inforging said plug-piece, as aforesaid, the plugs c are brought to suchsize when placed therein, as shown in Figs. 4 and 10, and the unitingstrip or bar (2 between said plugs need be made only of such diameter aswill enable the operator to conven iently manipulate the piece whileforging the same, and in finally uniting it with the tube, as belowdescribed. The said plug-piece 3 may consist simply of the said plugs cand their uniting-strip, or one of said plugs may be out off ofsufficient length from the bar D to provide for forming on the end ofthe same a tang, 4, which may be screw-threaded to provide one means ofuniting the completed handle to the blade of the knife, as shown in Fig.7.

If desired, the barD, Fig. 10, may be of such quality of steel as willbe suitable for the blade of the knife, and the plug-piece 3, afterhaving been formed, as aforesaid, onthe end of the bar, a part of whichis to form the blade of the knife, may be left integrally attached tosaid bar, and the said piece of the latter may be forged and drawn outinto a blade, thereby obviating the necessity of attaching the blade ofthe knife to the handle, as above referred to. The said tube 2 andplug-piece 3 having been united by placing one within the other, asshown in Fig. 4:, are then suitably heated in a forge or other fire,whereby the parts may be united by welding, and are then placed insuitable dies in a forging-drop, and are thus struck and forged to unitethe said parts, and at the same time to impart to the said tube therequisite oval form as adapts them to fill the ends of the tube 2- incross-section indicated by Fig. 8, which is a section of the finishedhandle, Fig. 7, on line 8 8 of said figure. The aforesaid dropforgingoperation upon the tube 2 and plugpiece 3 solidly unites the rear end ofthe handle so formed or the butt thereof, as shown in section in Fig. 7and tightly closes the opposite end of the handle upon the plug 0 withinthe same. After the hollow handle I) has been made as aforesaid, it issuitably finished by polishing, and is then in condition to be unitedwith the bolster end of the knifeblade K in any suitable way, asaforesaid.

The construction of the above-described hollow metallic handle by theemployment of a piece of metallic tubing, 2, and the plugpiece 3 affordsmany advantages over the manner of constructing hollow metallic handlesheretofore practiced, in that the tubing is comparatively inexpensive,and the manner of forming the plug-piece, whereby both plugs are formedat once upon the same piece, provides for economical manipulation of theplug parts in the manufacture of the handlewhich does not pertain to themanufacture of hollow metallic handles in which the plugs are separatelyformed and applied thereto, and the uniting strip or bar 6 of theplug-piece serves to bring, with great convenience to the operator, bothof the plugs simultaneously to their proper positions within the tube 2when "placed therein for forging the handle, as aforesaid, and byforming the uniting-strip e of small diameter said strip does not addmaterially to the weight of the handle.

It is obvious that the plug in the end of the handle adjoining thebolster end of the blade K may, if desired, be drilled and tapped toreceive a screw-threaded tang on the end of the blade.

WVhat I claim as my invention is 1. A hollow knife-handle consisting ofa metallic tube and two metal plugs united by a as set forth.

FREDRIOK (l. FEIOKER. Witnesses:

WM. S. BELLows, H. A. CHAPIN.

